Is this anything like “You can’t fire me, I quit”?
WASHINGTON — In an interview set to air this Sunday, former President George W. Bush said he was done with politics and that he is uninterested in campaigning or raising money for political candidates.
The 43rd president, who has been sparing in his public appearances since leaving the White House, took questions from C-Span this past Monday at a Southern Methodist University forum. Asked whether he was “through with politics,” Bush replied: “Yeah.”
I don’t want to go out and campaign for candidates. I don’t want to be viewed as a perpetual money-raiser. I don’t want to be on these talk shows giving my opinion, second-guessing the current president. I think it’s bad for the country, frankly, to have a former president criticize his successor. It’s tough enough to president as it is without a former president undermining the current president. Plus, I don’t want to do that.
In other words, in spite of the fact that I’m now on TV, I don’t want to be on TV … I tell people that one of the interesting sacrifices, I don’t think you sacrifice to run for president, but to the extent you do is you lose your anonymity. I like the idea of trying to regain anonymity to a certain extent. And being out of the press, at least in this stage of the post-presidency is something that makes me very comfortable and its somewhat liberating, frankly.
finally, the piece of shit does the right thing.
Although I’d be happier if he vowed to jump off of a tall building.
It’s probably more like an alternate explanation for why bush isn’t out campaigning and fundraising for candidates besides the obvious reason that no candidate (or party) wants to be associated with bush. It’s the same reason canididates don’t ask charles manson to campaign for them. I think the gop is eager to disasssociate itself from bush, and bush is happy that he doesn’t have to hurt his head trying to remember where he is, who he is campaigning for and what positions he was told to support.
I imagine that it won’t be long before Sarah Palin feels the same way.